PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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There’s no safe way to move crude oil across an entire continent. So what risks are we willing to take? And who bears the brunt of that risk? Over ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 19:13
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:13
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
On the next all-NEW Snap… “This Is Not A Drill”. For 38 minutes in 2018, Hawaiians thought their world was about to end.
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 53:57
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 27:48
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 2
This is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalis...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 01:32:39
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 42:13
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 25:43
Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski wanted to stop an oil company from fracking in the park near her house. When her message fell short, she decid...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:59
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 42:38
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Joe Carraro discusses his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, and how he was the only true small businessman in the then-governor's small business ro...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:28
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:19
- Purchases: 1
The Oklahoma City Youth Council gives high schoolers an inside look at municipal government and all it takes to run a city, but it can also affect ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2009
- Length: 03:49
Over 17,000 people gathered at NYC's Madison Square Garden to honor folk musician Pete Seeger.
- Added: May 08, 2009
- Length: 55:29
A 21-year-old woman describes the difficulty of paying the bills while working at a deli and Wendy's. What do the candidates have to say about that?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
